त्रिशङ्कु [ triśaṅku ] [ trí -śaṅku ] m. N. of a sage Lit. TUp. i , 10

   of a king of Ayodhyā (aspiring to ascend to heaven in his mortal body , he first requested Vasishṭha to perform a great sacrifice for him ; on Vasishṭha's refusing he applied to Vasishṭha's hundred sons , who cursed and degraded him to the rank of a Caṇḍāla ( hence called a Caṇḍāla king Lit. DivyA7v. xxxiii ) ; Viśvā-mitra then undertook the sacrifice for him and invited all the gods , who declined to come and thereby so enraged the sage that , by his own power , he transported Triśaṅku to heaven ; on his being hurled down again head foremost by the gods , he was arrested in his course by Viśvā-mitra and remained suspended in the sky , forming the southern cross constellation Lit. R. i , 57 (59 G) ff. ( son of Pṛithu ) ; Lit. Hariv. 730 ff. and Lit. VP. iv , 3 , 13 f. ( son of Trayyāruṇa ) ; ( son of Tri-bandhana ) Lit. BhP. ix , 7) Lit. MBh. i , xiii

   a cat Lit. L.

   the civet-cat Lit. Npr.

   a grasshopper Lit. L.

   a fire-fly Lit. L.

   = [ °ṅkha ] Lit. L.

   N. of a mythical mountain Lit. DivyA7v. viii , 293 ff.

   [ triśaṅku ] f. N. of a mythical river Lit. 223 and 295

   ( [ °kukā ] ) Lit. 298

   m. pl. N. of thorns Lit. 293